Barry Hassan

After the iPhone version hit just over 3,000 sales in the first month, Typeplace for the web seemed like a natural successor to the application.

Opening up the ability to share Typography with Twitter friends to users without an iDevice, Typeplace carries most of the functionality over from the native iOS application to the web. Boasting over 1,000 active users, Typeplace is the easiest way to share found type digitally.

A project for my final year studying Interactive Design at UU. Typeplace went into beta at the end of January 2011 and gathered great press on Swissmiss amongst others.

It launched on April 5th 2011 into the App Store, was written in Objective-C in Apple's own IDE - Xcode and is an application to help share photographs of notable pieces of typography. In two and a half weeks it sold over 1,600 copies.

The redesign of the Regularly Funded Organisations Survey as conducted by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The main issue on the this site was to improve the User Experience.

This project will launch in April 2010 and will be used by all big art bodies in Northern Ireland such as the Grand Opera House, Ulster Orchestra and Alternative Ulster to name but a few. It is a private site and not viewable to the general public.

Designed on my placement year at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for display in the Troubles section of the Ulster Museum on its reopening. I also had a hand in developing the site in ASP, gathering content and addressing issues such as functionality and usability.

This project received a lot of press after it's official launch in December 2009. It is still under development by the Arts Council and will be pushed out to a external domain in 2011.

In Winter 2009/10 I created an iPhone app to be released under the Killbot Collective brand (see below), this is the homepage which was used to promote the app and give users a link to its app store location.

The IMD app was launched on January 4th 2010 for one semester only and was available in the UK and Irish app stores aimed at students of Interactive Multimedia Design at University of Ulster.

The Killbot Collective was a brand that co-operated with fellow IMD students Ciara Bryans, David McCracken and Tommy Palmer as an outlet for the IMD App released in January 2010. It also served as a point of contact for anybody who would like to discuss projects.

Most Killbot Collective news and updates are first released through their Twitter which is found here. This project was ceased in late 2010 but you can still view it here.

Colleen is a student of Illustration at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. This is an ongoing project which has not yet launched and is set to showcase the Illustration and photography talent of Colleen as she completes her degree.

This site makes use of emerging web technologies such as CSS3 and jQuery UI, both quite useful in portfolio site like this. Still an ongoing work but you can view it here

Created for Franklynn Holdings in Summer 2009, I developed this site based on the companies brochure, where the homepage was a series of pictures accompanied by quotations and statements relevant to the business. The site also featured a contact page and profile of the company.

This site launched in June 2009 and has increased the profile of the business and can be view at franklynn.co.uk.

A self-initiated project in an attempt to further my iPhone Development skills, the IMD iPhone App allows a Interactive Multimedia Design Student with access to an iPhone/iPod Touch to access vital information such as news and timetables associated with their course.

The app was launched at the end of January 2010 for use in Semester Two 2010. It was available through the Apple App Store and withdrawn at the end of the second semester.

Created for Northern Irelands Cultural Olympiad in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the 2012 London Olympics. Features a bespoke CMS using Expression Engine, this was a redesign request and gave me a chance to delve into Information Architecture.

Launched in January 2010, the site can be viewed at artscouncil-ni.org/olympiad. Note: may have been changed since my original design as it is run by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Apex Racing is a group project I was part of alongside Ciara Bryans, David McCracken and Andrea Taylor. It was to rebrand and redesign the University of Ulsters current Formula Student Race team and to give them an online presence.

The Apex Racing site was created as part of a design module of Interactive Multimedia Design. View it here.